skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling it impossible to flip votes is quite silly. You can just pre-program the machine to pick a candidate randomly every few votes and you skew the election. Do it after the first few votes to give you a distribution so as to only do it between the major candidates and not inflate any marginal runners. Do it only on machines in locations that vote against your preferred candidate and you skew to your candidate. If there are no paper receipts you just get away with it. If there are you can still attack democracy itself by sowing a bunch of doubt in the election. Electronic voting is a really poor idea. There's no credible evidence the US election was stolen but the way it's ran is appalling and makes this kind of mistrust easy, which is a very important failure mode as was evident this time around.

We had an election here yesterday. Each voter just filled in a pre-printed paper and dropped it into a box. COVID restrictions meant we had up to 10 minute queues depending on time of day, normally it's much faster. Each polling table is self-contained and had less than 1000 votes to count at the end of the day. They're just setup in school buildings on a Sunday when they'd otherwise be empty. Two hours after the election almost all of them had counted their votes, reported them centrally and that was available on a simple website anyone can see. There will be a central recount in a few days as a double check. It never finds any differences. Each of these polling tables is staffed with 5 or 6 people that double check what each of them is doing and makes it so there's a lot of people involved in the election further increasing the trust of the population in the process, because a not insignificant part of them take part. The scaling of the process is embarrassingly parallel so is workable for any size of country or election. I don't get why anyone would want to go through all the trouble of inventing these complex technology solutions to a non-problem that then create these huge attack vectors not only to actually do something nefarious but even more importantly to convince people that that has happened and rile up a mob.
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A company can be a public figure.
Thank you for the specific feedback and general.

One thing I noticed is you do not include the framework in the folder name.

I may have fallen out of favor, but a while back it seemed like repos would be named in part by their tech. I.e. product_name_django.

A quick look at trending projects in python and swift on github seems to confirm that. [0]

It seems like you give top level naming to services and to entire applications. Is there anything other than memory or doc with indicating meta to quickly discern what is what?

db48x commented on a top-level doc like this, do you use something like that? Perhaps a readme provides this?

Can you tell me anything about issues / tickets? For example, I commonly use github issues on a per-repo basis, on some projects that's a problem because they go together.

However on a monorepo like you've described, perhaps a lot of tagging would be needed to classify what goes to what. I'm interested in how you issues up to commits, and have effective milestones filled with these issues.

[0] https://github.com/trending/swift, https://github.com/trending/python
For example, you might see repos that
There have been audits showing inconsistencies in the dominion systems in Michigan.

https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20423772-antrim-cou...

In addition they have videos of dominion employees supposedly explaining how to flip votes.

https://thespectator.info/2021/01/04/new-video-shows-dominio...

If you watched the state senate hearings you can see these. Witnesses share their findings. As far as I’m aware Giuliani repeats these, in defense of his client.

Michigan: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXkAv7yKgw

Kinda feel like this lawsuit will go no where. Then again politics seem to be all that matter here. We shall see how it plays out, I suspect given the stakes Guiliani will go down.

Frankly, I’ve seen the evidence Guiliani has presented and I find it convincing, at least enough to warrant an investigation. It’s quite surprising the state of things. I urge everyone to do their own research and decide, particularly, watch the state hearings on election fraud.

EDIT: I personally think this is an effort to tie down trumps legal defense team during the impeachment.
Giving people unlimited housing, medicine, food, and clothing doesn't make them into responsible adults.
People alleging election fraud should present evidence of it.

People alleging human-to-human transmission of a pathogen should similarly present evidence of it. Within a week of that tweet, the WHO had said evidence in hand. (https://www.who.int/china/news/detail/22-01-2020-field-visit...)
I agree with you. I should add a disclaimer that this is still being worked on.

I will add what you proposed.

Thanks for your input.
At my ophthalmologist office the glasses store is a different company than the ophthalmologist's office.

They might have a revenue sharing agreement, maybe, but they don't even encourage you to use it.
The precedent this would set would be disastrous. Any bad actor could try to force a company to release IP to prove they aren't acting maliciously. We have the legal discovery process for a reason.
"When engineering doesn't involve product or design"
That would be quite the coincidence... and also assumes there is only one shelter with free beds.
Opposing political views are badly taken on HN, so many people might create extra accounts to comment political posts?

There is enough affidavits, and statistical anomalies to warrant an investigation. And until there is one, anyone is free to claim voter fraud. But nonetheless all comments claiming fraud to be tangentially possible are getting destroyed. Even though the media has been bragging how easy is to hack a voting machine after Trump 2016 win. After 20 million for "Russia collusion" which was badly founded, and resulted in not much, is there nothing to investigate this election? Or would it be too embarrassing?

Until there is an investigation, there is no "misinformation", people should be free to express doubt, and support allegations of voter fraud.
To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "Largest land animal ever so far"
Amazon removes militia-associated charity groups from Smile program
Sorry if I could have worded it more clearly - I meant that we have never successfully eradicated a member of the coronavirus family. If we have, I appreciate a correction, preferably with a source. Reread my comment and I think this will be clear
NATO and the UN generally have their own classes of visas that do not grant diplomatic privileges. In the US for example, there are NATO visas for NATO representatives, and G visas for members of international organizations [0] (although they made an exception to that and let the EU and African Union representatives enter on diplomatic A visas) [1].

The funny part is that this is a total tempest in a teapot. Diplomatic immunity hardly ever gets used nowadays; the only real advantage to diplomatic status is avoiding the London congestion taxes.

[0] - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/other-vi...

[1] - https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/other-vi...
We create value out of nothing everyday for ages.The fact that it is been done with the internet now changes nothing.
> There is no reason for GME to be where it is, in a traditional analysis sense, other than WSB talking about them.

It isn't possible to assert that there is no other reason. The world is very large, there are a lot of people in it and strange things happen.

Us not being able to think of a reason apart from WSB is different from WSB being a cause of something.
The news media, at the time, said it was due to federal funding being cut, and Reagan was in charge.

I don't doubt there are liberty issues with institutions, though.

EDIT:

Here's a good summary:

https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-menta...

Now I remember: pushed the funding from federal to state responsibility, which caused many states to empty out the institutions.

And where do you think many of those people ended up? Berkeley, CA. Because they were sometimes put on buses there, and sometimes it was just the most friendly place to be.
Thanks for this. Where do you generally see this document living? I mentioned in my reply to giorgioz, perhaps a readme on the root could offer this easy reference?

I am curious if you have feedback on the other question I posed giorgioz around issue management on a monorepo.
Argue the points, not the person.
A more professional version of twitter is linkedin. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm entirely serious.
>You mentioned your lack of interest in PhD program despite already 1.5 years into it. You might want to dig deeper into yourself to understand why that is the case. When you say meaningful, do you mean something that will change the world.

Its because I believe I learn more interesting things than I would in a corporate job. Additionally I haven't been able to find a job that I find more interesting then my current one, although I am actively searching and interviewing. I believe that I search (heavily) based on my cv though, without going into new waters.

>If you love doing something but you don't get recognized for it, would that bother you?

No, I don't think it would.

>If you did get recognised for a work which you were not passionate about. Would you still find meaning in it?

I believe this would depend on factors such as who is benefited by my work, does my job contribute in solving a problem that I believe is important etc.. In general I believe recognition is not so important to me.

>After I completed by engineering, I started a company with my friends - thinking this will be meaningful experience. And it was in many ways. It helped me understand myself and the world better. But, it took many years to figure out exactly what I wanted to do and where my heart lies. Most people don't take that journey.

So, if you want to find meaningful work, you need to start on the self exploration journey. Hope that was useful.

That makes sense! Thanks for sharing this! What do you think contributed the most in finding what you wanted to do?
I think hetzner is about half an expensive (€8 tb/m) and I personally prefer ssh/rsync to http/S3.
> Is the idea here that by putting assertions that were discredited and that failed in court cases heard by Republican and, in some cases, Trump-appointed judges in Airtable, they somehow gain credibility?

Yes. This is airtable is used on a number of websites that claim to show Biden cheated. It's a form of gish galloping - look closer at any of these, there's a reason why no court seriously entertained them. But when presented with so many items, it seems like there is something to it(of course, there's not).
> Frankly, I’ve seen the evidence Guiliani has presented and I find it convincing

Care to share?
You only need to recount heavily when the election is near 50%, because the higher the margin of victory, the fewer random samples you need to detect fraud. This is what Georgia actually does. The automatic margin is for runoff elections.
Because you can't prove a negative?
It does feel there's something of a line between the older folklore and the urban, technology-infused tales, but overall it is a great connection to make. Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War is a nice little take on the old and new sensibilities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Yokai_War
I haven't redefined anything; your definition of "long means that they're holding shares or call options" is completely in agreement with my statement that "long just means not short." The parent seems to be conflating having a long position and believing in the long-term performance of the company. They're asking about long-term changes in GameStop's business when the person he's asking about this could very well be planning on being long in GME for the duration of this squeeze (or the most extreme parts of it) and bailing in the next 1-4 weeks after it has played out.
Dominion machines print a ballot, which the voter takes — and as such, can see the vote — and deposits for counting separately. The final vote tally can be from the machines, but there’s always the paper ballots available to count — which is what a recount is: a manual count of the ballots. The machines simplify the process but they don’t change it.
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People don't leave out the connections, it's just that there isn't much firm evidence to outline whatever nature it had. More difficult statements about relationships outside the circumpolar world remain purely speculative.

As for the follow up questions, Asia is a big place, and India is on the order of 4,000-5,000 miles from the Bering strait where pre-Thule cultures likely originated. There's no identifiable, historic relationship between modern Inuit/eskimos and people in India. However, they remain closely related to the Yuit on the other side of the strait.
I must have missed the part of the video where media and observers were barred from the room, rather than simply having left. Could you give me a timestamp?

With the whole thing being on camera and knowing that no secret ballot suitcases were smuggled in, are we to believe that in the absence of observers they somehow rigged the counting machines to mis-scan these ballots, even though the hand recount for Fulton only differed from the initial count by 0.07%?
Can’t possibly be the case that a President who never won the popular vote and never polled above 50% approval during his entire term lost an election in which almost every poll leading up to it predicted his loss.
Rudy melted inside RNC headquarters.
In thirty five years, I have encountered three zealots that became worse over time, because their zealotry was seen by upper management as dedication and resolve, so they were rewarded. As we all know in engineering, positive feedback is bad. It was awful. But luckily only three times in thirty five years, so I have that going for me.
As a developer, I can say that this is maybe possible, but not easy.
Because so many things have to be hardcoded in the manifest, the code and UK gets complicated and messy quickly if you try to workaround to provide both ways.
Dump the damn Electoral College and count votes like a non-crazy person.

Imagine how much we could cut out.
You don't have to use the same language as the people you're talking about.

See, for example, ThoughtSlime's coverage of fascist militias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMWQDvZQZs
I bet we're gonna see a fight between Giuliani and Trump now. Sick of this whole tantrum, peeps, let's move on. We have a pandemic to tackle, we have a shitty economy, we have shitty buggy software, we have corps creating walled gardens threatening the existence of the internet as we knew it, etcetera. Let's look towards the future even if the climate change seems too daunting, we may find a solution for that too.
Sad, how far off the deep end he went.
Thank you for this reply.

Can you give a bit more detail on what you mean? For example, I will have a .github folder I'll need for CI/CD workflows used across the monorepo. This is sort of becoming my go-to tool for devops things in addition to deployment.

Are there other repo-maintenance type folders I should be thinking about that you specifically have in mind?

Did you mean to start a tree one directory removed from root so that the root has only a sparse set? What I mean to say is for your pkg/ example, have all services / apps leap off that folder rather than root?

If you have any feedback on issue management as I mentioned in my other replies, also happy to take any feedback.
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I run a small company, and offer local business financial services.

A few years ago, I setup my Google My Business listing for my retail location.

Late last year I was trying to do a GSUITE account data export. It requires you to setup 2FA and I couldn't get it to work - so I asked our MSP to help since they help with other stuff. They had better luck, but multiple switching of the 2FA options and recovery emails/phone numbers caused an automatic suspension on the admin account.

I was able to quickly unlock the account with another admin account, but the suspension cascaded to Google My Business, which remains suspended because GSUITE support only support their core apps.

As you can imagine, my appeal went unresponded, and here we are, months later, with no business listing, and literally no ability to contact anyone that can help.

I wonder how many other businesses have stories like this.
San Francisco has passed many bans like this, and the results speak for themselves. Legal prohibitions are quite separate from what will be enforced.
Not just the difference between indoor and outdoor light, but also the incredible variations between a sunny day in the summer and a cloudy day in winter. There's a pretty incredible difference.
Most of the noise of a prop-driven airplane is the propellor, not the engine. Electrics will be quieter, but not sure they will be "much" quieter.
> Restaurants are antiquated, too.

The modern restaurants is kind of recent, right? It was invented around the same time as the bicycle.
So the machines are redundant?
Wasn't it already proven that the machines are not biased, by counting the votes by hand in Georgia and seeing that the results did not change?
The lockdowns are created by states and are political. If their goal has been archived, they can be lifted.
I think you can thank Louis Rossmann for that - he spent a good amount of time traveling around the NE US actively arguing for RtR in front of governments (local and larger)
This is an interesting reminder... I've been using catch-all on @mydomain for at least 15 years, and I went through a phase where I'd get a lot of random strings @mydomain. I set up dummy honeypot@mydomain accounts and added a lot of crap as aliases so they'd get tucked away in a disabled account. (I also do that with any "valid" email addresses that start to get spam.) It was a pain in the butt, but it also stopped quite a while ago. With newer domains, I tend to see stupid common ones like "info", "postmaster", etc. getting spam, but haven't seen the random gibberish ones.
Paper ballots were kept in the Antrim County election, and a review supported the declared results: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/audit-in-michigan-county-r...

Whatever the problems experienced in the initial tabulation because of a mismatch between client and server software revisions, it is very difficult to falsify paper ballots especially under so much recount scrutiny.
I feel like a lot of these sorts of scenarios should be reported as bugs. It seems like a mischaracterization and that the process is broken.

I suppose Google doesn't really care since we aren't really customers (were the resource being mined). This might even be considered a feature to them since they don't need customer service reps to handle it.
> As far as I know he only said that in the Pennsylvania case

They specifically either did not make or withdrew fraud allegations in many cases. It's true that the PA case is the only one where Giuliani was stupid enough to repeatedly invoke fraud in arguments despite it not being in the allegations or evidence in that case, thereby getting questioned by the judge on that point, and thus being forced to admit his arguments on those points weren't germane to the actual lawsuit he was discussing (similar, though different in detail problems were endemic to the Trump/Kraken lawsuits, like broad claims of counting irregularities in lawsuits in one state being supported by detailed allegations specifying specific facilities in another state.)

> And part of this is a problem specifically because they never really got to have a trial and do discovery and all of that.

False. A number of the election cases went to trial (6 out of 54 tracked on Wikipedia reached a final verdict after trial, and 1 is listed as trial ongoing, though that may be out of date).

> But if the cases get dismissed on procedure then you have one side saying "all your cases were dismissed so shut up" and the other side saying they never actually got their day in court and nothing to ever reconcile them because both statements are true.

Well, procedure matters. Especially when you deliberately delay claims you believed you had simply to prevent the availability of simple remedies. If you have a problem with cases dismissed for gross procedural failings, take it up with the people who bungled the procedure in dozens of separate cases.
You can only see that far away if the light energy is that abundant.
No, you can only appeal after you've been rejected. This update has neither been approved nor rejected -- it's just stuck "In Review".

You can ask for an expedited review, which I did on day 6. I got a form letter back saying that my request was "escalated for continued handling". But it doesn't seem to have made any difference.
> My guess is "new toys are cool" / "Want this on my resume"

Whenever I read comments like this I’m always deeply suspicious of the commenter (is that how you justify trying/adopting tech) or their employer (are they so draconian in tech/design choices that everything is frozen for good). I’m not trying to cast aspersions on you or your employer directly... but it’s fascinating to me to see such a myopic take on a problem space I hope you’d agree is very much not one-approach-fits-all. I’m surprised to hear about their flow too, but my more charitable assumption is that their teams have tried different things and settled on an evolving process that works for them. They’re proud enough to boast it from the corporate blog, it can’t be entirely lark.
No, there are many privacy coins, but most are indeed just copies of Monero or Zcash. The author of that paper has discovered multiple CVE's in Zcash (https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-16930/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-11636/ ).

There are very few unique source codebases which implement privacy coins, maybe a half dozen depending on how lenient you are (i.e. is DASH a privacy coin? Barely, but it could be considered one. Blockchain analysis companies make fun of the "privacy" of DASH.)

I believe when he says "inventing a whole new field" he means inventing a whole new field of attacks and defenses, just like the Phrack paper invented a whole new industry of attacks and then their defenses.

Taking these new kinds of attacks into account, all existing privacy coins are vulnerable. Monero is more vulnerable than Zcash Protocol, since it does not have Zero Knowledge Math. It uses Group Theory, which leaks metadata like crazy.
I’ve been happy with Wasabi.
Go to an eye doctor.
A plethora of court cases disagree with you.
One FAANGUAMLetc engineer told me they SSH, Slurm, and track experiments by telling their manager which parameters were best the day before. This was very strange given that this company has a machine learning platform, so either this engineer did not use it, or they did not use it that much.

We were talking about our machine learning platform and taking it for a spin. We do have long-running notebook scheduling[0] but we wanted to be able to watch the notebook's output from multiple devices as it was running, and for it to survive closed tabs or network disconnections, not just get the results once it's done. We also wanted to be able to do that right from the notebook's interface, instead of SSH'ing and all that, as this was tedious and some of our users aren't that comfortable doing that.

- [0]: https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/#long-running-notebooks
Telling people what they did wrong so they can correct it is appropriate. You don't have to tell them how you detected it, and keeping them banned until they fix it is fine.

Also at minimum I'd think I'd allow them access to past emails as a default.